Allergic rhinitis (AR) is the most common chronic disorder in the pediatric population. Although several studies have investigated the correlation between AR and sleep-related issues, the association between the duration and time of sleep and AR has not been analyzed in long-term national data. This study investigated the relationship between sleep time and duration and AR risk in middle- and h...

The aim of this study is to classify electromyogram (EMG) signals for controlling multifunction proshetic devices. An artificial neural network (ANN) implementation was used for this purpose. Autoregressive (AR) parameters of a1, a2, a3, a4 and their signal power obtained from different arm muscle motions were applied to the input of ANN, which is a multilayer perceptron. At the output layer, f...

BACKGROUND Eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) is present in eosinophil granules. It has been associated with eosinophil-associated disorders. OBJECTIVE We compared serum ECP levels in allergic and non-allergic rhinitis patients and evaluated the association with the eosinophil count and the total IgE level. METHOD We retrospectively reviewed medical records and categorized enrolled patients ...

We report a portable 6-DOF (six degrees of freedom) motion tracking system which uses high-accuracy AR markers. It enables easy measurement of 6-DOF motion of multiple tracking points by a single camera. We examined the measurement accuracy of the motion tracker by comparing with an ordinary motioncapture system. The pose estimation errors are about 5 [mm] in location (depth) and about 2 [deg] ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of arm motor impairment on actual arm use in the early post-stroke period and explore its association with self-care dependency. SUBJECTS Thirty-one patients recruited within the 30 first days after stroke. METHODS Motor impairment of the upper extremity was measured with Fugl-Meyer Motor Assessment (FMA) and arm use was measured with accelerometry. Arm moveme...

Abstract Background Afar region is one of the pastoralist dominated regions in Ethiopia. The characterized by a low contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) 5.4%. Lack awareness use, husband objection and religious barriers are attributed to CPR region. This study assessed effect community-based interventions for promoting family planning (FP) use among communities Methods design was three-arm, para...

Abstract In this paper, the prediction of unsteady flow field over typical high aspect ratio (AR) wings in transonic regime but below sonic Mach number is interest. The methodology adopted a computational approach based on small disturbance potential equation. It shown that higher AR generally have lift coefficient as well lift-to-drag ratio. With NASA’s common research model (CRM) wing, there ...

The primary instability of the flow past rectangular cylinders is studied to comprehensively describe influence aspect ratio $AR$ and rounding leading- and/or trailing-edge corners. Aspect ratios ranging between $0.25$ $30$ are considered. We show that critical Reynolds number ( $\textit {Re}_c$ ) corresponding increases with ratio, starting from {Re}_c \approx 34.8$ for $AR=0.25$ a value 140$ ...

Experimental and numerical studies are conducted on the thermal, chemical and dilution effects of buffer gas composition on autoignition of dimethyl ether (DME). The buffer gases considered are nitrogen (N2), a mixture of N2 and argon (Ar) at a mole ratio of 50%/50% and a mixture of Ar and carbon dioxide (CO2) at a mole ratio of 61.2%/38.8%. Experiments are performed using a rapid compression m...

Motivated by exciting, but puzzling, noble gas results in terrestrial diamonds (e.g. high He/He ratios close to the solar value from industrial class diamonds [Ozima et al., 1983] and low 40ArPAr [ = 189] from an Arkansas, U.S.A., diamond [Melton and Giardini, 1980]), we undertook the study of noble gases in diamonds from different locations. Although this is ongoing research, we can report pre...